Throwing Away Slabs

[Tnerb]

Or Recycling Plastic

 

All those cracked cases were piling up in a corner. I can't fully understand why I was keeping them other than maybe to see how many I would crack. The first one I did had my nerves shaking like a student surgeon. After time I got comfortable and looked forward to the next one and the one after that. I even became crazed forcing myself to stop when I was finished.

 

My collection is growing a bit quicker than I can accommodate. I now have books to sell and my room is closing in on itself. I could either stop collecting or find a bigger place. The first one won't happen and the second seems unlikely. Of course after the NYCC I will have to slow done. I have two conventions I have plans of attending back to back in March.

 

I should gather what I'm willing to sell and place either on the boards or eBay. My thoughts are hopeful, my plans are weak, but all I need is to find that one diamond in the rough. I have 150 days to scrimp and save. I've done it before but I know I have to stop buying today so I can continue to buy tomorrow and make sure when I start cracking my slabs next year to throw them away immediately.

 

Thanks for Reading

 

Tnerb

 

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[Lee K]

I throw away slabs too...but only if there are mutant books on the inside.

 

 

Time to clean house buddy! I have a difficult time with space for collection too, I may have to recycle dome raw books that I don't care about...

 

Happy hunting!

Lee

[bagofleas]

I felt the same way with my first cracking. Now, after over 150 of them, I too am so much more comfortable with it that I must make myself stop or wind up doing too much.

 

Like you, I too am laying off for the rest of the year until March. I may resort to just buying some raws in hopes of getting issues worth trying for high grades.

[surfer99]

I throw away slabs too...but only if there are mutant books on the inside.

 

Say it ain't so Lee! Don't even kid about things like that dude!

Now, had you said "I only throw away checkerboards", that I would understand.

 

Tnerb, all I can think about when I see a pile of plastic like that is how much money was just thrown away in grading and shipping fees. I know, I know, you want to have them signed and for that you need to crack the slab. Still. Too bad CGC doesn't offer a discount for returning the old slabs.

 

 

 

 

 

[SW3D]

Wow... that is a tall pile of broken slabs!

 

SW3D

[bagofleas]

Now that I look back, the fact that in the last 10 months I have cracked over 200 slabs is astonishing to me! I can only imagine the stack of plastic I would have if I were to put them all together now!

 

SCARY!!!